Chaosophy - autonomous learning

university in 1968 or in prisons, a whole underground was operating,
a whole new sensibility was searching for itself I get the impression
that the general crisis in psychiatry, before it expressed itself on a
large scale, started to shape opinions at all levels. It was in this
context that filmmakers began to get interested in it.
What do you think of the fact that Fous a delier [Not So Mad] came
out when the second round of meetings of the International Anti­
Psychiatry Network were being held
The "Bastille Day" team came asking us what sort of film we
would like to have shown during these international meetings.
The film of the Parma and Bellochio teams corresponded so well
to the whole orientation of the Network that it served in some
ways as an introduction for us. What's it all about Until now,
criticisms of psychiatry had come from madness "professionals":
from psychiatrists, nurses, or, less often, ex-patients. But often the
language of these "specialists" was incomprehensible to the public
at large, and sometimes, it must be said, it was counterdependent
upon the system itself. What is extraordinary about Fous a defier is
that it is the people involved who really get the opportunity to
speak. Its success is a credit to the "cinema of combat." I even
think they expressed themselves better here than they could have
done using some other mode of communication. I don't know
how the Bellochio team succeeded in working so well with the
different groups that speak in Fous a defier: children, educators,
psychiatrists, militant groups; they always give the best of themselves.
It's a small miracle; for once one does not have the feeling
one is being presented with another "documentary"; people speak
here in a way one is not used to hearing.
How is such a result possible
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